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Gov. Walz ordered flags at half-staff on the day of the shootings. Flags fly at half-staff at Soldiers Field Veterans Memorial on Friday, June 20, 2025, in Rochester.
Corrections and clarifications: A previous version of this article misstated the flag position on Flag Day. They are at full staff. Flags in Arizona and across the United States were to fly full ...
Flags are flying at half-staff June 12 across Florida as a "mark of respect" for those who died or were affected by the Pulse Nightclub shooting. Forty-nine people were killed and 53 were wounded ...
Gov. Maura Healey announced that state and national flags will fly at half-staff in Massachusetts today, June 7 to honor Staff Sergeant Loring E. Lord of Somerville. SSG Lord served in the U.S ...
Flags around Iowa will be lowered to half-staff on Friday, June 6. Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered all flags be lowered from sunrise to sunset Friday. All flags on public grounds will be at half-staff ...
In New York, the national flag should be displayed at half-staff on a number of significant days, as well as on other days by special proclamation of the president or the state's governor.
If it seems like flags in Ohio have been flying at half-staff a lot lately, well — they have been. Through 27 days of May, flags have been lowered for at least 20 of them.
South Carolina flags will be flying at half-staff Tuesday, May 27. Here's what to know about Gov. Henry McMaster's half-staff flag order. Why are flags at half-staff in South Carolina?
Following the death of former President Jimmy Carter, American flags fly at half-staff at daybreak with the U.S. Capitol in the background on December 30, 2024, in Washington.
Flags around Iowa will be lowered from sunrise to noon on May 26 in honor of Memorial Day. The National League of Families POW/MIA flag will be flown on the Capitol grounds for the entire day.